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A Typological Classification of Megaliths of Mizoram

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019
The practice of raising megalithic monuments is a tradition of the Mizos in early society. Since the purpose and significance of the megalithic tradition in society differed from tribe to tribe and from culture to culture, the Mizos used wood or stone ...
_ Malsawmliana
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A Review of Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2002
The megalithic monuments of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region of northern Germany are relatively well known from a conventional archaeological perspective, having attracted scientific attention for well over a century.
Brian Fagan
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'Sarsen stones in Wessex': a society of antiquaries project contextualised and renewed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper reviews the Society of Antiquaries’ Evolution of the Landscape project, which started in 1974, and the project’s Sarsen Stones in Wessex survey.
Ashbee   +34 more
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Review of Pocket Guide Megaliths [app]

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2017
The Pocket Guide Megaliths app was developed by Senet Mobile UK in collaboration with The Megalithic Portal website. The app was released in 2016 and is currently available for iOS devices, such as iPhone and iPads.
Barney Harris
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Extensions territoriales et interprétations fonctionnelles des mégalithes chez les Ti-bolgui (Mambay) de l’arrondissement de Bibémi au Nord-Cameroun [PDF]

open access: yesVestiges: Traces of Record, 2022
Les récentes recherches faites par N.S. Tchandeu et A. Mezop Temgoua-Noumissing inventorient les foyers mégalithiques au Cameroun. Dans ce pays, le mégalithisme se manifeste par la présence des pierres débout ou plantées, en alignements, amassées ...
Abdou Saïdou, Sambo Hassimi
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Rituals and Practices of Megalith Building: An Archaeological and Ethnographic Study of Megaliths in Oinam Village in Manipur, Northeast India

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology
Despite some reports of the living tradition of megalith building among a few communities in Northeast India, the rituals and practices involved in such undertakings have not been studied in detail.
Oinam Premchand Singh
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Archéologie indienne et mouvement migratoire

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2011
This article draws a relation between the works undertaken by the members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at the end of the 18th century and the later development of Indian archaeology, through the promotion of an interpretive model grounded on ...
Anne-Julie Etter
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Tarhatinsky megalytic complex: the petroglyphs, observed are astronomical phenomena and shadow of the megaliths [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014
In this article, the results of recent studies of the Tarhatinsky megalithic complex (Gorny Altai, Kosh-Agach region) are presented. During 2010-2012, previously unpublished petroglyphic figures were copied and geodetic measurements were carried out, as ...
Matochkin, E.P., Gienko, E,G.
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La Edad del Cobre en las tierras de Antequera (Málaga): introducción a los patrones de asentamiento y dinámicas sociales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Antequera (Málaga) is home to one of the most important Neolithic and Copper Age megalithic landscapes in Europe, as proven by its recent declaration as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 15th 2016. This declaration highlights the need to push ahead
García Sanjuán, Leonardo   +3 more
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The cultural landscape of megalithic tombs in Denmark, reconstructed by soil pollen analysis

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2012
Forty-four pollen spectra from 25 megalithic tombs (5 dolmens and 20 passage graves) in eastern and northern Denmark reveal a highly varied landscape with remains of woodland, coppice woods or secondary woodland and open areas of grass and herb ...
†Svend Th. Andersen
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